“”North Woods International School participated in the 12th annual Jumpstart Read for the Record.
Nearly 400 students and staff at North Woods International School gathered to read, laugh, and learn as they joined together to participate in the world’s largest shared reading experience.
Students were able to join a story walk, which combined the pleasure of reading the book aloud while walking together outdoors. A story walk is a fun, educational activity that places the pages from a children’s story along a walking route around the outside of the school. The story walk helps build student interest in reading while encouraging healthy outdoor activity and promoting the school’s theme of unity for both children and adults.
“This is another great way to connect children to reading,” said North Woods International teacher Sara DePaolo. “Active learning is a goal at North Woods, and we hope this will spark continued interest in not only story walks at school but develop some lifelong readers as well.”
Each year, Jumpstart selects one children’s book as the catalyst for Read for the Record. This year’s Read for the Record book is Quackers, by Liz Wong, a story about a kitten who grows up believing he’s a duck, until the days he meets another kitten. What follows is a tale about understanding, acceptance, and learning it’s ok to be whoever you want to be.
Since 2006, the national Read for the Record campaign has mobilized over 19 million people. North Woods’ participation this year will help to try and break the world reading record for the most people reading the same book on the same day as part of the world’s largest shared reading experience — bringing together over 2 million people each year in classrooms, libraries, community centers, and homes across the United States. In 2016, over 2.35 million children and adults from around the world read The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach.
Learn more about Jumpstart and Read for the Record by clicking here.“”””[vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/Hr9B_-aPqTM” align=”center”]””
